I think the tweet by Big Dog was Marrow not being completely honest. Everyone knows that Matt Jones gets his info from Big Dog. I didn’t hear the show, but when he went on his rant yesterday, I’m sure Big Dogg felt the need to say something to try and smooth things over a little with Mitch.
Barney must go
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You can name people that have done uncommon stuff in everything over the years. I doubt anyone would agree with you that it was a good hire at the time, it was a lazy hire is what it was. Not trying to argue with you though. I could have swore he was only here 2 years lol. Thanks for that info. I think we can all agree we’re pretty content with where we are. Just gotta step that recruting(NIl) up a notch or two.
I’ve been wanting Mitch gone for YEARs so I don’t apply to that scenario. Lol.
The fans had to practically beg Mitch to fire Joker. Had we had more than 100 fans show up for the Vandy game that year, I have no doubt he’d bring Joker back.
Mitch hates to search for new coaches.
I have to comment on your first sentence. It’s not uncommon if there are 4 coaches in the SEC that are currently at their first head coaching job and all 4 schools are really happy with them. Those aren’t outliers, those are the norm. There is no proven formula in the SEC for a successful head coach. Some first year coaches work, some don’t. Some guys who have success at lesser programs work, some don’t. Some guys who have had success at bigger programs work and some don’t.
How about we keep Mitch and the OP leaves?
Come on. That's basically a hostage note written hastily after Jones apparently outed Mitch on air.
Mitch does an amazing job in non revenue sports. We shouldn't want rid of him. He just needs to change some of the approaches on revenue sports. Problem is - he won't.
So that's the quandary
He fired them after we broke out the torches and pitchforks. Re.ember the microwave quote?
Remember when Joker quit in the middle of a game? "Let's just go home boys!" He should have been canned the very next day. Period. End of story.
I want Mitch here, but I tire of his Ward Cleaver routine. I remember a scene from Leave it to Beaver where Ward told the boys to "Come here, fellows." That's Mitch. We're his fellows and he wants to teach us that NIL is bad for the sport and alcohol is wrong (unless you give one of his departments money. Lot's of money).
I usually have a beer and laugh at most of the threads. The obvious rival fans here though have ruined the site.
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My sense is that he is a risk averse beurocrat that thinks like a lawyer. Instics are to take the safe, plotically correct route. Play the numbers and outlast the other guys. In an industry rife with innovation, change, and sharks.
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That’s great you care so much about winning in the other sports. And I get why Mitch is Mitch, his wife was a college volleyball player. But most of us invest most of our time in Men’s Basketball and Football, the only two sports that turn a profit and fund all the other teams. I believe those two should be a little more important than the other 16 teams. Unfortunately I don’t think Mitch looks at it that way. And that is the problem.
I think he does, he has to, or he wouldn't be employed very long. He just happens to want to invest in other sports beyond Basketball and Football. We aren't going to be in a Football championship game in the near future and sadly our basketball program is uneven. Landing a rifle or volleyball championship is good press and a cheap investment in the scheme of things. Look at our women's track - we are doing something right there as well.
Now I do agree with the person that said Mitch thinks like a lawyer. He failed badly with Gillispie and he didn't want Cal. Secretly he probably thinks he was right about Cal given their relationship. There have been times when I don't agree with Mitch, but I'm not going to bag on him for promoting other sports. That's what college should be about if you are an AD, and he should leverage our money makers in support of it. Increasing tickets prices though? Boooooo. Use that SEC money. I think that is his biggest challenge - keeping attendance going with Millineals and Gen Z
Such a foolish post. You HAVE to be a troll . There’s no way you could possibly be that ignorant.
I can't imagine anyone on here cares about winning in basketball more than I but one thing I know is that Life is a River. It is all flowing. Just because Mitch gives an athlete that aspires to great his or her whole life to succeed in college in something other than football or basketball doesn't have any effect on whether we win in college basketball or football one iota. To even think that is a sorry way to look at life. Our college football team has never really won anything and it makes the most money not because of the team we are, it's because what conference it is in.
In all my life never have I ever heard blame be put on the AD for basketball for winning or not winning. Don't tell me it is now! Our football team has never won until this AD and now we want him fired. Some of our fans, classic stupidity!!
AD doesn’t affect winning or losing. Hmmm. I guess our bb program just lucked out with cm newton and have a tendency to under perform under this ad? Is this your contention? As for fb. Do you watch it? Do you know Barney didn’t have stoops on his radar that stoops put himself there? Like I said before the success in athletics with barney at the helm has come at the expense of many failures. Any AD whose flagship program has underachieved as our bb program has throughout his tenure would have been tossed when he wrote bcgs contract on a napkin. Any man who hired joker Phillips even at a basketball school anywhere else that man would have been fired. Same goes with cals lame contract extension and subsequent back to back massive failures. Do you know what the average time for an ad? Barney has tripled it in his time here and I see nothing he has done to justify it.
btw Barney is currently the 4th longest serving athletics director in D1 athletics. I’m sorry but he hasn’t earned that
You're a misfit toy on the island of misfits, you want to take everyone's scholarship away, just talk crap about how they play, fire every employee and then praise North Carolina, Go away Idiot Troll. I've been noticing how many people think you are a stupid troll. Ha, your gig is up you mullet tardhole. This years team is going to shut that stupid mouth of yours. You are no fan of Kentucky. You got no backbone. You are a loser. Bank it, Whitaker!!!
Go Cats
The checkerboards are gone. I said I’d support him if that happens, and here we are. It kind of feels like blackmail though, because what kind of leader ruins a legacy out of stubbornness and perhaps Tennessee involvement.
It’s in the bottom 5 of worst decisions in the entire history of this department, and he was in charge. Your jersey is your identity, just look at ND football or Yankees baseball. We don’t have that partly because we spent a decade dressing up all of our student athletes as Checkers employees.
It’s in the bottom 5 of worst decisions in the entire history of this department, and he was in charge. Your jersey is your identity, just look at ND football or Yankees baseball. We don’t have that partly because we spent a decade dressing up all of our student athletes as Checkers employees.
Dude go check the definition of fair weather fan. By you continuously saying that makes you the clueless one
I'm still scratching my head over when it was that Barnhart's balls finally dropped. Granted, he only told the fat jagoff that he wasn't getting a new basketball dorm, but Barnie finally grew a pair and told Calipari "no."
